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The announcement that Auckland-based furniture maker Criterion Manufacturing Limited has gone into receivership is a blow for workers at the company as well as country, says the EPMU,...

One hundred employers have now signed up to be formal parties to the Metal and Manufacturing Industries Collective Agreement. Eagle Spares in Hamilton joined the agreement late last month,...

Fisher and Paykel Healthcare workers have accepted their employer's settlement offer for a new collective agreement. The EPMU and NDU organise the almost 900 East Tamaki-based F &...

More than 850 steel workers employed by NZ Steel at their sites in Glenbrook, Waikato North Head and Taharoa have called a 24-hour strike and walked off...

Hundreds of EPMU members, mainly from the plastics and metal manufacturing industries, gathered at offsite meetings last week in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, leaving standing room only. ‘I...

Mass member meetings planned for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch next week will bring workers together across the manufacturing and plastics industries, says EPMU director of organising Rachel Mackintosh. ‘There's...

New Zealand must "make more stuff" if it is to survive as a country, says the out-going head of the country's largest private-sector union. Andrew Little, who steps...

Unreported workplace accidents at Kiwi Steel have cost the company a hefty $237,500. One worker lost part of his finger in a guillotine, another had his foot...

Nearly 2000 engineering and manufacturing workers will have pay increases above inflation and an extra day holiday in 2011 after EPMU members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the Metals...

EPMU delegates in the metals and manufacturing sector met on 23 June and resolved to recommend that union members reject the employers' offer and call mass membership...